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Article: Feng shui? Phooey

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October 1, 1999
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If you hate coming to work and you are tired and listless once you get there, it could be because your office cubicle is suffering from bad feng shui.

(More likely it is because you are stuck in an awful, dead-end job or are not getting enough sleep, but never mind that; this column is about feng shui.)

Feng shui, for those of you who have been trapped in a negative energy field for the last few years, was dreamed up thousands of years ago by an ancient Chinese interior-design consultant who was looking for a way to perk up business.

The idea, basically, is that you can improve your mood by moving stuff around. If, for example, your wife tells you to push a heavy sofa from one side of ...

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